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The Advent of Early Cinema

The Advent of Early Cinema. Fantascope , Kinematic Scope, The Lumiere Brothers, and Thomas Edison. Precursors to Cinema. Vaudville shows and the magic lantern - “Phantasmagoria” in vaudeville shows and Victorian playhouses

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The Advent of Early Cinema

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  1. The Advent of Early Cinema Fantascope, Kinematic Scope, The Lumiere Brothers, and Thomas Edison

  2. Precursors to Cinema • Vaudville shows and the magic lantern - “Phantasmagoria” in vaudeville shows and Victorian playhouses - used to scare people, as it was something they had never seen before

  3. Precursors to Cinema • Fantascopeor “Phenakistiscope -Belgian Inventor, Joseph Plateau • Other “scopes” -Zoetrope: rotating cylinder with images inside, giving illusion of motion (wheel of life) -Phasmotrope, Praxinoscope, etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ43NDFjiw0 http://victorians.swgfl.org.uk/etoys/fantas/fanta.htm

  4. Birth of Cinema • Edward Muybridge -British Inventor in the late 19th century, develops his own Zoopraxiscope, or “the wheel of life” - It was “a primitive motion-picture projector machine that also recreated the illusion of movement (or animation) by projecting images - rapidly displayed in succession - onto a screen from photos printed on a rotating glass disc.” (Dirks, filmsite.org)

  5. Birth of Cinema • Thomas Edison and William K.L. Dickson -In 1892, Thomas Edison and his British partner, Dickson, develop the Kinetograph, which captures actual motion pictures for the first time. -These were no longer illusions, but actual motion pictures -The Kinetograph became the basis for the more popular hand cranked camera, which came along shortly after First public demonstration of a motion picture- “Dickson Greeting” (1892) Second Clip: “Corbett and Courtney” (1894) http://inventors.about.com/od/kstartinventions/a/Kinetoscope_2.htm

  6. Birth of Cinema • Early cinema was concerned about just showing MOTION PICTURES -The earliest filmmakers wanted to show that they could make pictures move, as that was amazing to audiences already. “Cats Boxing” (1894) “Falling Cat” (1890) “EugenSandow” (1894) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6faUd2fV4U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqL9siGDeBA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWM2ixqua3Y

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